Last night the 77th Prime Time Emmy Awards were held. Although I can no longer stand to watch award shows, I was very interested in this year's results. With streaming services pumping out some very high quality shows, I still have the naive belief that some of them will earn the recognition they deserve.
Best Drama winner: The Pitt
Geeky Guy's winner: The Pitt (Although I was thrilled that Andor was nominated as it is one of the best spy/uprising shows I have ever seen.)
As soon as I watched the last frame of The Pitt, I turned to my wife and said "That has to win the Emmy". It was basically flawless.
Best Comedy Series winner: The Studio
Geeky Guy's Winner: Abbott Elementary
Although I enjoyed The Studio, I would have chosen Abbott Elementary (the best teacher show ever), Only Murders in the Building, or What We Do In The Shadows.
Best Limited Anthology Series winner: Adolescence
Geeky Guy's winner: The Penguin
This one is heavily biased as I could not watch Adolescence due to the content. I find things with kids to be too much for me to handle. My wife said it was an incredibly well made show though. I was blown away by the Penguin though. It is simply a great mob drama.
Best Reality Show winner Traitors
Geeky Guy's winner: Survivor (of course)
Although I do plan on watching Traitors and have heard good things, until Survivor is off the air, it will always have my vote.
Best Acting categories (I don't really care about these very much so I'll just list the winners... although Colin Farrell as the Penguin was amazing).
Best Actor: Noah Wiley
Best Actress: Britt Lower
Best Supporting Actor: Trammell Tillman
Best Supporting Actress: Katherine LaNassa (Ok I lied. I REALLY cared about this one. LaNassa plays the best character on The Pitt and did a phenomenal job. I have not seen The White Lotus but I can't imagine anyone was better that LaNassa).
Katherine LaNassa stole every scene she was in. Her portrayal as Head Nurse and HERO Dana Evans is one of the best performances I have ever seen.
Best Actor in a Comedy Winner: Seth Rogen
Best Actress in a Comedy winner: Jean Smart (I lied about this one too and wish Quinta Brunson had won. I liked Hacks but Brunson is sensational in Abbott)
Best Supporting Actress in a comedy winner: Hannah Einbinder (I really loved her in hacks but I do wish Sheryl Lee Ralph had won)
Best Supporting Actor in a comedy winner: Jeff Hiller
Best Writing for a Limited Series: Dan Gilroy (Andor)
Geeky Guy's Winner: This one is the toughest one. Andor was incredible! But so was the Pitt. I have a feeling the voters may have purposely given The Pitt best drama and Andor bets writing so they could both win something.
Best Writing for a Comedy Series winner: Seth Rogen
Geeky Guy's Winner: Quinta Brunson
In the end, it seems the Emmy Awards are much better at nominating and choosing deserving winners when compared to the Oscars. While the Oscars seem to thumb their nose at anything popular, the Emmy Awards still seem to understand that sometimes the audience is right and they choose to spend time on high quality content. The list of nominees included many of my favorite shows: The Pitt, Andor, Abbott Elementary, The Penguin, Hacks, The Studio, The Last of Us and Only Murder in the Buildings. Even the ones I don't watch or did not like I have heard good things about or watched a few episodes, decided they were high quality but they just weren't for me. It definitely looks like I need to watch the White Lotus.